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Streaming problems as (multi-issue) claims problems

Theoretical Economics 2025-10-30 v1 Computer Science and Game Theory

Abstract

We study the problem of allocating the revenues raised via paid subscriptions to music streaming platforms among participating artists. We show that the main methods to solve streaming problems (pro-rata, user-centric and families generalizing them) can be seen as specific (well-known) rules to solve (multi-issue) claims problems. Our results permit to provide strong links between the well-established literature on claims problems and the emerging literature on streaming problems.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2412.18628,
  title  = {Streaming problems as (multi-issue) claims problems},
  author = {Gustavo Bergantiños and Juan D. Moreno-Ternero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.18628},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

23 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2310.11861

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